December 2011

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch a piece of cake at snack time, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Friday, December 2, 2011

Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Western-Japanese meal for dinner.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Got up at ten-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Got up at ten-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a Western-Japanese meal for dinner. It's a cold rainy day.

Monday, December 5, 2011

Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

The personnel director of Motorola Japan interviewed me when I took an examination for entering it in the first half of the 1990s. It's an honor for me to have an opportunity to talk personally with the chairman of Motorola Japan in his office for half an hour, following the interview with its personnel director. I had been frequently relocated to one office after another in Japan and the US since then until my permanent transfer to Motorola Inc. in the late 1990s. My job relocations during the first five-year period were arranged for the purpose of the job rotation program. To my knowledge, the job rotation program isn't common in the US.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Western-Japanese meal for dinner.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Ensembles, team sports, and other team events have been introduced to the education of children in terms of group activities in an organization. Strict training utilizing these team events is the above-mentioned education in a military fashion.

Some people have an insatiable spirit of inquiry by nature. It's a disposition inherited from their ancestors. It seems to me that the spirit of inquiry can't be easily cultivated with this sort of education.

Friday, December 9, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

My technical paper under the title of "Optimization of Sub-50nm MOSFETs to Mitigate Drive Current Degradation Due to Silicon Recess in S/D" was published in the 2003 SISPAD Proceeding. Originally, I planned to report only the results of the simulation study on the mechanism of the performance degradation associated with the Si recess in the S/D regions in the paper for the 2003 SISPAD.  With the intention to reflect on advice by a coauthor that not only the investigation of the influence of the Si surface recess but also the method to mitigate it should be addressed here in order to attain perfection, however, I decided to add it to this paper. During the process of writing this paper, I came up with this transistor design scheme by making full use of TCAD simulation. The comprehensive transistor design scheme was also added to this paper. As far as I know, nobody had used it before I reported it. A Taiwanese coworker asked me to send him a soft copy of this paper a few months after the 2003 SISPAD conference. After he received it from me, he began working on a similar work with an American coworker.

My technical paper under the title of "Moderately Doped Channel Multiple-FinFET for Logic Applications" was published in the 2005 IEDM Proceeding. I made this transistor design based on a hard look at a next-generation scaled-logic-transistor application, for the purposes of patent acquisition and publication.

These two papers were disclosed to the public for publication purposes after all of the necessary approval was obtained, as written previously. Therefore, these publications shouldn't cause any leakage of trade secrets.

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.

The Japanese Cabinet decided to reorganize the government-funded nuclear organizations in Japan, including the integration of the Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC, formerly called the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation of Japan) and the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) in 2001, and then the newly integrated organization of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) was established in 2005. A corporation having a special semi-governmental status that I was once offered a job on during my senior year at Science University of Tokyo is the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation of Japan, which is responsible for the development of a fast-breeder reactor and an advanced thermal converter reactor and is currently a part of JAEA.

In the long run, I didn't join the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation of Japan simply because my father strongly disagreed with my obtaining employment at it. If not, I would have been pleased to enter it. Somehow, my father passed away several days after my graduation from Science University of Tokyo and about a month before my matriculation at a master's course at Tokyo Institute of Technologies. In view of the present situation of nuclear power generation in Japan, whether my father's opinion was reasonable or not is still uncertain.

It's my view that solar power is the most peaceful source of energy. It's safe especially when any toxic material isn't used in its manufacturing process. Putting the right renewable sources of energy in the right place should be the key point. Solar power is suitable for the dry districts with a plenitude of sunshine, the geothermal is suitable for the cold districts, the EGS is suitable for the hot-underground-rock districts, the hydroelectric power is suitable for the mountainous districts near a stream, and the wind power is suitable for the windy districts, as written previously. For the next few decades, I think that oil and natural gases will still continue to play important roles in the energy industry.

The development of safe nuclear reactors should continue to ensure future energy resources. However, the proliferation of nuclear reactors should be more carefully dealt with than it is now until the conditions are satisfied in the near future.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Got up at nine o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch. Went out shopping at grocery stores this afternoon. Stopped off at an auto parts store to buy a new battery for my wife's car on our way home because it has reached its life span. Because they were about to close the store when I came in, I didn't ask them to do the installation of a battery there. Installed it in my wife's car right after homecoming. Ate a Japanese one-pot meal for dinner.

Recently, for some unknown reason, some people in Austin tend to bother me when I am dressed in glen plaid.

Monday, December 12, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

Practicing by repeating a presentation on my previous works in the semiconductor area at home for about thirty minutes is one of my recent daily habits. Also started rereading an English pronunciation textbook in order to get rid of my Japanese accent in my English today.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

The duties of the US troops that had been stationed for the purposes of the maintenance of public order and the training of the domestic security units in Iraq since the end of the Iraq War in 2003 came to a close officially today.

Friday, December 16, 2011

Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

For the last few days, the Internet access to our house via Earthlink has been very unstable.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Got up at ten-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Got up at ten-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a Japanese one-pot meal for dinner.

Monday, December 19, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Found that the plastic funnel that's installed in the engine to hold the engine oil dipstick of my wife's car was damaged due to deterioration. Since its oil change last September, a small amount of engine oil may have been spilled out from the damaged funnel while driving.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Western-Japanese meal for dinner.

In order to avoid any undesirable load for the engine of my wife's car due to possible deficiency of engine oil, my wife and I will not drive it until a new oil dipstick funnel is delivered to our house via UPS Blue this Friday. The reason why we ordered the funnel from a part shop in Arizona online is that it's the nearest to our house in the online parts shops having the funnel in stock that we found.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

Friday, December 23, 2011

Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Put a new oil dipstick funnel on the engine of my wife's car. Confirmed with an oil dipstick that the oil level of its engine was appropriate. The oil leakage from the engine has been kept to a minimum.

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Got up at eleven o'clock. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Western meal for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Got up at ten-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Monday, December 26, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch. Went out shopping at grocery stores this afternoon. Ate a Japanese meal for dinner.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Today is our tenth wedding anniversary. Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch. Went out to buy a large piece of Stilton cheese and a bottle of rose champagne at a grocery store this evening. Confirmed on the road that the condition of the engine of my wife's car was good. Ate a Japanese meal following an appetizer of Stilton and some glasses of champagne for dinner.

From now on, my wife and I may sometimes enjoy a bottle of wine, champagne, or sake at home only on Anniversaries and Holidays.

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

My father was unable to drink alcohol at all because he was born allergic to it. My grandfather was inclined to change into another person when drunk. I am able to hold my liquor much better than both of them. As in the past, drinking a bottle of champagne didn't give me any hangover. It seems that my liver is functioning well.

Friday, December 30, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and pieces of California Pizza Kitchen's pizza for dinner.

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Got up at ten forty-five. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal including a bowl of buckwheat noodle soup. Stayed at home for the entire day.

November 2011

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Western-Japanese meal for dinner.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

The performance assessment is one of the most important things to most people in most of the fields in the world today. As far as one's performance is correctly recognized and assessed in an organization, one's visibility may not be a matter of serious concern. Probably, it depends upon the degree of one's relative priority. If it isn't assessed fairly, however, one may need to improve one's visibility in an organization, or, unless a difficulty in an organization is dealt with successfully, one may need to gain public recognition.

It goes without saying that the accurate assessment of one's performance should be carried out without bias and without favor.

Friday, November 4, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Got up at ten-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Got up at nine forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch. Went out shopping at grocery stores this afternoon. Ate a Japanese one-pot meal for dinner. It's cloudy with occasional rain.

According to the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia in Japanese, "bronchitis is an illness exhibiting symptoms of a productive cough and a sensation of chest congestion". "When it's acute, bronchitis may entail a relatively high fever and chest pain". "In most common cases, bronchitis is developed from a cold or influenza". "The chilly atmosphere may also induce bronchitis". "When the unfavorable conditions repeat, the deformation or the degeneration of the mucosal tissues in the bronchial tube is caused, so that it becomes chronic bronchitis".

Although my coughing didn't entail any high fever and wasn't developed from a cold or influenza, the symptoms I had mostly in the late half of 2003 were similar to the symptoms that are described in the Britannica Encyclopedia as seen above. It can be said that my bad cough persistent from 2003 until 2004 was a symptom of bronchitis, air-conditioning-induced disease, stress-induced disease, side effects, or autonomic imbalance. Some of them may be the correct answers. In other words, a combination of the prescription medications for blood pressure reduction, overwork, and some other unhealthy conditions including the very chilly condition around my desk triggered a persistent cough. Because a powerful cough persistent for about a year increased the burden on my heart those days, dizziness might have sometimes seized me when I stood up suddenly for the following few years.

Taking rest and keeping warm had recovered the condition of my health, as written previously.

Monday, November 7, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner. It's cloudy with occasional rain.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

According to some news sources, an asteroid approximately 400 meters in diameter, which was found in 2005, is passing near the Earth today. Its closest distance from the Earth is about 85% of the spacing between the Earth and the Moon. Maybe I am imagining things, but there have recently been too many news suggesting the possibility that things may be falling from the sky and influential people may be falling from high positions.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

Friday, November 11, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

Found that the pivot arm (mount) of one of the outside mirrors of my wife's car was broken this evening. Probably, something happened when we went out shopping at grocery stores last weekend.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Got up at ten-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Fastened the outside mirror of my wife's car with adhesive tape tentatively this afternoon. Tried to find a replacement part for the outside mirror of my wife's car at several online shops by doing Internet searches. However, it wasn't found.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Got up at nine forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch. Went to see "J. Edgar" and "Immortals 3D" at the movie theaters this afternoon. Ate a meal at a restaurant this evening. Stopped at grocery stores on the way home.

The film entitled "J. Edgar" gives a vivid portrait of Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, who restructured the FBI as its director in the early twentieth century and led it until his death in 1972.  The restructuring of the agency involved the implementation of strict discipline and training, the introduction of scientific criminal investigation and intensive surveillance, and the advancement of its publicity. Although the subject who first invented fingerprint verification is an unknown field to me, it's true that he directed the FBI to collect a huge stack of fingerprint files. The description of the psychology of an outstanding US patriot from the inside in this film is interesting. According to the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, "Hoover habitually used the FBI's enormous surveillance and information gathering powers to collect damaging information on politicians throughout the country, and apparently, he was able to intimidate even sitting presidents by threatening to leak damaging disclosures about them". What menacing acts he had taken habitually! It seems that his followers in the FBI, CIA, or political parties have been continuously taking such activities until now. Indeed, there may be quite a long history of such a political trick in many places all around the world.

In a scene of this film, Mr. Hoover made a long speech while referring to its draft written on the boards that are hidden from the sight of his audience. I don't know who first invented the idea that allows a speaker to pretend to make a speech extempore or to memorize its entire draft. At the present time, this way of speech is very common in broadcasting stations and political fields, as well known. However, it still isn't common in the academic fields. 

The frequent use of flashbacks doesn't confuse the audience if the film tells the episodes of a person famous as this world goes. It seems to me that, whether what the film tells is true or not, his portrayal of possible homosexuality in the film doesn't hurt the senior audience's feelings.

The film entitled "Immortals 3D" tells a new sanguinary story on the sceneries made with the full use of the latest computer graphics in 3D. Although the film is made on the theme of a tale of Theseus's heroic adventures found in Greek mythology, its plot is quite different from the original plot of Greek mythology. Several foreign essences such as the dualism of good and evil, Apocalypse, and Ragnarok seen in Christianity and Norse mythology are incorporated in this film. In the world of good and evil, as seen in this fictional film, only the way people on the good side may be able to choose is the all-out resistance. No negotiation for evils should be helpful.

On the other hand, in the case of the conflicts between gangs and even the conflicts between the government and the antigovernment in the real world, the negotiation should always be meaningful. The virtue of the battle lasting for a century was praised in the medieval period and earlier. Needless to say, however, it shouldn't be so in modern times because of the tremendous advancement of the lethality of weapons and especially the existence of weapons of mass destruction. It's rather ironic in this film that the existence of the weapons created by Cyclops makes even the immortals mortal.

The 3D effect of this film is mild and natural. It didn't bring on my headaches at all. The scene in which Theseus heightens the morale of the troops by commanding in rhythm with beating his shield is impressive. My wife said that that sounds like rap music. That may sound like so, but Theseus doesn't say "Yo".

Monday, November 14, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a hot day.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

It's a cloudy morning promising rain accompanied by thunder. Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Western-Japanese meal for dinner.

According to some news sources, a few bullets hit the bulletproof glass windows of the White House. Needless to say, this sort of act is more menacing than that to intimidate a person by threatening to leak damaging disclosures.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Friday, November 18, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

The year 2011 is a strange year for particle physicists and astrophysicists. As the experimental results using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, suspicions about the existence of the Higgs boson and supersymmetry increased. Additionally, the Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tracking Apparatus (OPERA), which is a collaboration with CERN, reported recently that neutrinos might travel faster than light.

Because neutrino is a subatomic particle with no electric charge, little mass, and half-integral spin, neutrino interacts with other particles by weak force and very weak gravity. Today, OPERA reported that its new measurements of the speed of this very penetrating subatomic particle traveling from CERN again suggest with a higher degree of accuracy than previously reported that neutrinos travel faster than light. This result is contrary to the Special Theory of Relativity, which describes that the unreachable upper limit of the speed of a matter with a mass that is accelerated from a speed less than the speed of light is the speed of light.

Most scientists are still considering that there may be an unknown source of error in the experiment, according to some news sources. The question of whether the mass of the subatomic particle that OPERA detected is nonzero or not is interesting personally if it really travels faster than light.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Got up at eleven-fifteen. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

It goes without saying that poisoning a person by putting poisonous substances such as toxins, venoms, chemical materials, and radioactive materials in food must be a criminal act. Don't repeat such a criminal act, whoever orders you to do so.

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Got up at ten-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch. Went out shopping at grocery stores this afternoon. Ate a Japanese one-pot meal for dinner.

Monday, November 21, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Today is Thanksgiving Day. Got up at ten o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Western-Japanese meal for dinner.

Friday, November 25, 2011

Got up at nine o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Got up at ten-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Got up at ten o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a Japanese one-pot meal for dinner.

Because I tried to get as much rest as possible for the last several days, my health has almost recovered. Resumed doing light stretching exercises yesterday.

Monday, November 28, 2011

Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. Also resumed doing light muscle exercises today.

My personal opinion on the education of children at the present time is that further developments of objectiveness are necessary in many fields. The possession of objectiveness should be a necessary condition in natural science and other academic fields. It also helps strengthen people's control over themselves. The higher degree of people's objectiveness the society attains, the less egocentric people it has without the smallest strain.

Education in military fashion may have a similar influence on people's mental orientedness in terms of less selfishness, but it tends to make people bored. People shouldn't be educated to be just the cogwheels for the society. However, education in a military fashion can't be completely denied because the implementation of education in a military fashion is much easier than that of the education intended to develop objectiveness. That's merely a matter of degree.

It goes without saying that people's emotional development is also important, especially in the fields of literature and art. However, it seems to me that the development of objectiveness doesn't check people's emotional development. Instead, it helps improve the ability in the composition in these fields.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Because of the freedom from the established ideas, a genius may be seen not only as a childish person in some cases but also as an aged person in other cases. One of the key features of a genius is the librated thinking that isn't bound to established ideas. Under a misunderstanding about a genius, a childlike quality is sometimes overvalued. I believe that any low mental maturity shouldn't be highly esteemed.

Unlike a genius for thinking, a genius for skills may be developed most efficiently with early education, as well known. Early education for skills helps grow the specialized abilities in a child. However, too strict early education has often been criticized because it just grows a person like a machine.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, a piece of cake at snack time, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

October 2011

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Got up at ten o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Got up at eight-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

Since I came to the US in 1997 until recently, I have never suffered from any clear symptoms of allergy. A few years ago, however, exposure to late summer pollen (e.g. ragweed pollen) and early spring pollen (e.g. cedar pollen) started causing my allergy symptoms such as sneezing, nasal congestion, and eye itching. For the last few days, it seems to me that a lot of ragweed pollens have been floating in the air in Austin. In my case, any pollen allergy doesn't bring on a persistent cough.

Monday, October 3, 2011

Got up at eight-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

The speed of a conventional semiconductor integrated circuit shouldn't be determined by the speed of the data transmission through the metal interconnects (Cu, Al, W, etc.) because the length of each interconnect is quite short generally and the electron mobility in the metal interconnects is sufficiently high. It's mainly determined by the switching speeds of the semiconductor transistors fabricated on a chip, which control the flow of electricity at the junctions between the interconnects. If the switching speed, the power consumption and the scalability of the photocoupler consisting of both the light emitting device and either the phototransistor or other optoelectronic device, which controls the beam of light at the junctions between the optical interconnects, become comparable to those of the conventional semiconductor device such as the MOSFET in the future, the optical interconnects, which don't entail any interconnect capacitance but lead to only a slight loss of luminous intensity during the data transmission, might be used as the interconnect of a future integrated circuit. If not, such a circuit will never be the mainstream. The realization of a photocoupler that satisfies all of the requirements above seems to be difficult.

To be honest, I am not well acquainted with the recent development of this sort of integrated circuit. There may be a breakthrough identified recently. It's only a guess of mine that when the compound semiconductor channel (e.g. InGaAs for nFET) and/or the other semiconductor channel (e.g. Ge for pFET) break into the mainstream of the logic applications in the future, the optical interconnects might be used partially on a chip without raising the additional manufacturing cost excessively and increasing the chip size considerably when the switching speed of the photocoupler surpasses the MOSFET and the HEMT. The performance of the future integrated circuit could be improved by substituting the optical interconnects only for the metal interconnects on a semiconductor chip that is used for the limited paths transferring a large number of signals frequently, just like the fast data transmissions outside a chip through the optical fiber cables ever seen in a nonintegrated circuit and between integrated circuits. Otherwise, even the partial use of the optical interconnects won't be brought to fruition. Therefore, it seems to me that the most important requirement for success in this technology is the improvement of the switching speed of the photocoupler, setting aside the power consumption and scalability. It's my impression that an ordinary combination between improved types of a light-emitting device and a phototransistor is unpromising. The development of an innovative optoelectronic device may be necessary to realize the optical interconnects in a semiconductor chip.

The setting of the very tight limitation on the choice of the basic material for the optoelectronic device should make it more difficult to identify its innovative device design. The substitution of the optical interconnects for the metal interconnects on a silicon chip seems to be more difficult and less advantageous than that of the compound channel FETs and/or the other semiconductor channel FETs for the silicon channel FETs, in terms of several aspects. These are the reasons why the introduction of the optical interconnect into the conventional silicon chip is more difficult. It's very difficult, but not impossible.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese-Western meal for dinner.

My allergy symptoms have already been calmed down though allergens should still be floating in the air. My symptoms lasted only for a few days. Recently, pollen scattered around from the elm trees in the neighborhood started filling the air increasingly, in addition to ragweed pollen. It seems that the elm pollen doesn't trigger my allergy symptoms noticeably.

Mr. Steven Paul Jobs passed away at the age of 56.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Friday, October 7, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and pieces of Central Market's pizza for dinner.

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Got up at nine-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. Occasional showers soaked the surface of the ground today.

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch. The rain that has been falling since yesterday afternoon came down in torrents early this morning.  The heavy rain had soaked deep into the ground. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Monday, October 10, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Got up at seven-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Friday, October 14, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and pieces of Central Market's pizza for dinner.

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Got up at eight-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Got up at ten o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. Went out shopping at a grocery store this evening.

I had a daily habit of going to the gym to firm up my muscles as often as I had had the opportunity since my school days. Even when the condition of my health wasn't very good, I didn't fail to go to the athletic club. A very persistent cough had troubled me due to a combination of prescription medications for blood pressure reduction that probably didn't suit my constitution, the overwork, and some other reasons from late 2003 until late 2004. On most occasions during this period of time, my habit of working out was continued. Instead of a persistent cough, the dizziness had seized me when I stood up suddenly from the summer of 2005 until 2008. In order to recover the condition of my health, I tried to work out harder in 2006 than before. During this period of time, in addition to the muscle training, I went jogging for 30 minutes every morning. In early 2007, I finally realized that I needed complete rest. 

My health condition is currently fine considering my age of 45. As a substitute for some medications, my weight was reduced to about 145 pounds for the purpose of blood pressure reduction. Recently, after a long interval, I started doing light stretching and muscle exercises in order to avoid my stiff shoulders.

Monday, October 17, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Because I wasn't blinking frequently when concentrating on writing a document file on the computer during the daytime, my eyes are now bloodshot due to eye fatigue and dry eyes. Frequent blinking is only a practical way to avoid it.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Friday, October 21, 2011

Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and pieces of Central Market's pizza for dinner.

The condition of my red eyes has been taking a turn for the better because of frequent blinking during the documentation.

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Got up at nine o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Got up at eight forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a Japanese one-pot meal for dinner. 

The documentation of a computer file has already been completed.

Monday, October 24, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

Within a few years, I may purchase an eBook to read magazines and newspapers when it comes with a good color display that is gentle to our eyes and consumes energy at a low rate. I still want to read the books made of paper. Needless to say, wasteful spending on paper has to be minimized. However, as long as the balance between supply and demand of paper is maintained by reducing a surplus of its demand and by recycling scrap paper more actively, there should be no serious problem with cutting down the forests manageably, just like harvesting vegetables. The serious problem is that the development of farmlands by swidden accelerated with the rapid growth of the developing countries especially in the tropics and the frequent occurrences of forest fires in the arid regions and their neighboring regions have advanced deforestation in the world.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Yesterday, an unreasonable request made me recall the unpleasant experiences I had in 2003. It's unpleasant because it's one of the causes of my sickness in those days.

I had been under manageable pressure from closing dates, as some of the hardworking people were so. Since the late spring of 2003, however, some leeway on the due dates had been reduced gradually. In accordance with it, pressure from closing dates had been intensified more until the end of 2003. Unfortunately, during this period of time, most of the deadlines of the work that I was pressed for time with were set without urgent necessity. Judging from what people have said, those tight deadlines were set to harm my health on purpose. To be honest, there were many other unhealthy conditions laid down intentionally. The fortunate events in 2003 were that the projects that I had been involved in were very successful and that those deadlines were met in time in most cases. The unfortunate aspect was that an ill will caused my ill health.

Indeed, it isn't true that only a chain of tight deadlines made me ill those days. I had a better mental endurance than most. A very persistent cough had troubled me due to a combination of prescription medications for blood pressure reduction, overwork, and some other reasons from 2003 until 2004, followed by dizziness from 2005 until 2008. It's true that I underestimated some harmful influences of the side effects of prescription medicines on me.

I refused to accept an unreasonable request yesterday in order to avoid an undesirable agreement on my part to take charge of the future working to numerous tight deadlines set with only malice. I would like to believe that an unpleasant request I saw in three email messages to me yesterday had no connection with who carried out some wicked designs on me in 2003.

BTW, a person who made an unreasonable request yesterday behaved as if he had become a different person.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

The worst drought in a century did a lot of mischief to the crops in Texas. The City of Austin has imposed tight restraints on the use of water outside the house. It had caused some damage to the lawn in front and backyards of my house. However, because the St. Augustine lawn is sufficiently drought-resistant, it has been recovering from the drought damage gradually and surely.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Friday, October 28, 2011

Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and pieces of Central Market's pizza for dinner.

The new transistor design for the scaled MOSFET with the compound semiconductor n-channel should be a matter of interest to the semiconductor industry. It seems that many researchers have been engaged in developing that. In this stage, it would be wise for me to keep the details of the ideas about its transistor design under my hat even if they have already flashed into my mind.

On the other hand, the transistor design for the MOSFET with the Germanium p-channel should be obvious.

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Got up at eleven-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Got up at ten-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a Japanese one-pot meal for dinner.

Some sorts of journalists often lay in ambush for a person, as a part of their job. Usually, ordinary people don't do that.

My wife and I noticed that we are always being waylaid and followed, for some reason or other. We dislike a person who follows or waylays us.

Monday, October 31, 2011

Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

September 2011

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Today's maximum temperature is 102 degrees F (38.9 degrees C).

Friday, September 2, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and pieces of Central Market's pizza for dinner. Mr. Yoshihiko Noda was formally appointed as the 95th Prime Minister of Japan Today.

    "This is an interesting topic found in the Reuters online news today".

This is related to a highly political issue among nations, especially among the US, Russia, and China for the last few decades, that is the prevention of the arms race with new weapons in outer space.

It seems that the treaty that requires all member nations to equip all of their new artificial satellites under consideration with a self-deorbit system that enables to direct a satellite itself downward to the middle of the oceans while controlling its attitude may be necessary, though it should raise the costs. A satellite smaller in size can be dropped down to the Earth's surface without caring about both the attitude when it enters the atmosphere and the spot where it falls because it breaks into small pieces in the atmosphere after all.

The following are my proposals for the cleaning up efforts of the existing space debris, which are mostly the used artificial satellites and the failed artificial satellites. For the clearance work of the existing small debris orbiting the Earth that can be broken into smithereens completely with friction with the Earth's atmosphere when reentering the atmosphere, the development of unmanned satellites that are capable of kicking these orbiting debris down from the upper orbit physically at an angle between the opposite direction of travel and the downward direction may enable to remove them all from the Earth's orbits without using any offensive firearm. It's desirable for the kicker satellites to be durable enough to bear frequent uses and to have a rechargeable system with the use of solar panels. However, because the trajectories of the kicked debris aren't tightly controllable, this wild way may cause some undesirable collisions between the kicked debris and the necessary satellites. This wild way may be practical only for the debris in a very low orbit (e.g. 50 to 100 miles above the Earth). Once the kicked debris from a very low orbit enters the upper atmosphere, increasing friction with the atmosphere should reduce the speed and lower the altitude of the debris further spontaneously.

The kicker satellite shouldn't be like the killer satellite that is designed to explode near the target satellite orbiting the Earth in order to break it to pieces. The kicker satellite doesn't necessarily have any leg. The kicker satellite may be equipped with a solid catapult that is made with carbon fiber and capable of shooting an unnecessary small satellite in any shape or form aiming at the direction. Instead, the kicker satellite may be equipped with a large gun that can shoot a plastic bullet, a nontoxic soft metal bullet, or a plastic bullet jacketed with a thin soft metal, the diameter, length, and weight of which are about 2 feet, 10 feet and 700 pounds respectively, at close range very strongly aiming at the center of an unnecessary satellite in low orbit about 50 to 100 miles above the Earth in order to deorbit it and to force it to enter the atmosphere. Although a large gun with soft bullets, which looks like a riot gun, may be categorized as a firearm, most nations may be agreeable to its use in the Earth's orbits for the purpose of kicking the space debris down into the atmosphere because of its less offensiveness. A plastic bullet never gets through the Earth's atmosphere without being burnt out with friction with the atmosphere, whether it hits or misses the target. Although some carbon emissions may be unavoidable, as long as the number of the existing debris in the Earth's orbits is on a gradual decrease with this method, its impacts on the environment shouldn't be a matter of serious concern. After carrying out the latter idea, some small scraps of the fragmented plastic or metal bullets would be left in the lower orbit, as the unnecessary by-products. This problem may be cleared to some degree when plastic is so adhesive that it can cling to the space debris till it's burnt out in the atmosphere. When all the bullets are used up, the kicker satellite can replace an empty cartridge with a new cartridge that is fully loaded and launched from the ground into orbit.

For the clearance work of large space debris, a simple disposable container that is equipped with a small propulsion system and an attitude control should be launched from the ground into a low orbit. A disposable container can hold the debris and can take its course controllably downward to the middle of the oceans until it's broken into smithereens in the atmosphere.

For the clearance work of the space debris in very high orbits, no treatment may be necessary because these orbits are not crowed. If necessary, instead of making the debris reenter the atmosphere, the debris may be forced to escape from the Earth's gravitational field.

An unmanned cargo ship that can move under solar power utilizing the ion/plasma rocket may also be necessary in order to collect the space debris from the orbits and to carry them either down to a low orbit or up to a high orbit so that either the kicker satellites or the disposal containers waiting at either a low orbit or a high orbit can deal with all of the collected existing debris, as explained above. However, it's doubtful whether the thrust of such a solar-powered ion/plasma rocket is strong enough to move between the Earth's orbits while carrying the debris. If a self-chargeable ion/plasma rocket cargo ship with enough power is still under development or is just impracticable, a cargo ship with a typical chemical rocket such as a space shuttle may be used to collect the debris in the orbits. In this case, an unmanned cargo ship needs to refuel itself in an orbit by receiving a fuel tank module launched from the ground to save the fuel and to avoid damage to its body by minimizing the frequency of its reentering into the atmosphere.

Needless to say, the easiest way to carry out cleaning up of the existing debris in the Earth's orbits is to use offensive firearms. Shooting down the space debris in the low orbits from the upper orbit with the missiles is what some want to do and others want to stop. Different from a plastic bullet and an ordinary missile, a heat-resistant-material-coated missile is capable of striking a target on the ground after penetrating through the atmosphere. Most people should feel uncomfortable when the satellites armed with such missiles are sailing across the sky several times a day or always staying right over their heads in the geostationary orbit.

Let's assume that cleaning up of the existing space debris can be postponed for long-term future consideration. When a technology of the generation of electricity with an abundance of energy sources without emitting a massive amount of pollution including greenhouse gases is established and introduced in the future, the transportation of all the space debris from the Earth's orbits down to the Earth's surface, down to the moon's surface, and/or out of the Earth's gravitational field using the unmanned space shuttles will be most desirable. According to the news above, 16,094 pieces of debris are currently orbiting the Earth. Assuming that a new space shuttle can carry 10 pieces of debris in its cargo at one time and can stand up to 30 flights including reentering the atmosphere in its life span, 54 space shuttles at least or much more will be necessary to accomplish this cleaning-up project when a large majority of the debris is planned to be brought to the Earth's surface. As the number of debris that is dumped on the moon's surface or out of the Earth's gravitational field increases, the number of space shuttles necessary for this project decreases but the fuel consumption should surely increase. It seems that most of the space agencies don't like this plan. Although this is the way accompanying enormous consumptions of energy, costs, and efforts, this way should be very eco-friendly. For the clearance work of space debris that contains a considerable amount of toxic substances, this way of an energy dissipater may be necessary in either case. The neglect of the toxic debris in the orbits is another choice.

BTW, both the so-called plasma rocket and ion rocket may be desirable candidates for the driving system of the future space vehicle aiming for interplanetary travel within our solar system. However, in principle, these types of rockets are incapable of advancing at a great speed because the faster speed of charged particles and the higher propulsion we want their driving systems to have, the larger scale structure and therefore the larger mass their bodies should have. It sounds like a flying particle accelerator, doesn't it?

Today's maximum temperature is 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

A challenge to a very comprehensive simulation may have some meanings, whether large or small, but it isn't entirely without a tinge of big talk. Probably, idealism motivates scientists to make an extreme attempt at the computer simulation of a very large system. The aim of the attempt may include the flashy advertising of the forefront of science and computer technology. Because of various reasons such as the lack of enough computing power, the inaccuracy of the numerical expressions and their calibrations, and the existence of the undiscovered phenomena, however, an observable fact in a very comprehensive system of our entire earth, solar system, or galaxy isn't accurately predictable using simulation, in general. For example, the quantitative predictions of the Earth's climate change since the Industrial Revolution, the lifespan of a solar system, and the vicissitudes of human society in terms of many aspects are difficult.

There are bugs in most of the software including the simulators. Most of the numerical expressions implemented in a simulation aren't applicable to the universal uses but the restrictive uses. The fitting parameters of most of the numerical expressions implemented have to be properly calibrated on the basis of a massive amount of reliable measured data. Since the accurate simulation requires a detailed description of a system, a very great ability of the computing should be necessary in order to accomplish the predictive simulation in a very large system.

It's my view that computer simulation is a useful tool that can provide researchers with some insights into the truths hidden in the complexity of a rather smaller or simpler system where the basic phenomena are mostly understood. Although the computer simulation doesn't give researchers any new ideas or views, it helps them analyze and evaluate their own ideas, not only qualitatively but also quantitatively, without spending vast amounts of time and costs.

Today's maximum temperature is 102 degrees F (38.9 degrees C).

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Got up at eight-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a BBQ meal for dinner. Went out shopping at grocery stores this evening.

A machine can be much stronger, much faster, and much more durable than a human being. A machine can fly high in the sky, dive deep under the sea, burrow deep under the ground, and go deep into outer space. A computer, which is a type of electronic machine, can memorize much more fund of information and can calculate and judge much faster and more accurately.

A human being is creative, imaginative, and versatile. A machine can't be so. A human being creates machines and uses them to enhance its capability and to improve its environment. A computer simulation is one of the efficient tools with some imperfections that are specialized for the use of researchers.

Today's maximum temperature is 102 degrees F (38.9 degrees C).

Monday, September 5, 2011

Today is Labor Day. Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch. Looked after my yards this evening. Ate a Japanese one-pot meal for dinner.

Of course, the insurance companies should pay for the repairs to the damages to the insured properties in the disaster areas.

Today's maximum temperature is 92 degrees F (33.3 degrees C).

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

    "This is an interesting topic found in the Water Conservation website of City of Austin news today".

The stage 2 Watering Restrictions (watering allowed 1 day per week) is quite severe. The sprinkling frequency of the automatic lawn sprinkler for our yards was readjusted in order to fulfill the stage 2 restrictions this evening.

Today's maximum temperature is 94 degrees F (34.4 degrees C).

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

Today's maximum temperature is 96 degrees F (35.6 degrees C).

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Today's maximum temperature is 95 degrees F (35 degrees C).

Friday, September 9, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and pieces of Central Market's pizza for dinner.

Today's maximum temperature is 99 degrees F (37.2 degrees C).

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Got up at nine o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

    "This is an interesting topic found in the BBC online news today".

In the world today, some groups could stir up a disaffected crowd to riot, and other antigovernment acts through social networks on the Internet. If a supercomputer is fed not only with news stories but also with open conversations in particular social networks, the degree of risk in the outburst of the major world events could be more forecastably measured several days or a few months before the event, though it requires higher ability of data processing. However, it seems it's difficult for any computer to read the figurative expressions in news stories that the devotees of rhetoric mean something with and the ambiguous expressions in conversations in social networks that the devotees of politics prefer for the purpose of a smoking screen. Indeed, it isn't easy even for a person to apprehend them.

People who are involved in the national defense should be interested in the practicality of such a supercomputer. For the purpose of homeland security, they need to know any perilous conversation carried on clandestinely. Things become more difficult in this case. Probably, at the job sites of Homeland Security against terrorism and rebellion, the human wave tactics that are less sophisticated than the simulation using a supercomputer still have been used to obviate a possible cause of an undesirable major event. It's my personal view that some people may be able to forecast the major world events several days prior to them by analyzing the news and other sources with the assistance of the excellent statistical data given by a supercomputer, as good as a weather forecast can do currently, in the near future.

Let's think about another field of the application. In the future, a supercomputer may be actively involved in the administration of justice. A supercomputer may take a supporting role in the judicial decisions. There is a little possibility that a supercomputer will take a leading role in the future court of justice. This is simply because a computer is potentially superior to a human being in the accuracy of the judgment under the law which should be strictly and systematically established, and it's essentially desirable in the fairness of the judgment. Some think that a human judge should be better than a computer judge and a little looseness should be incorporated even into the judicature because the deliberation in the court always deals with the events in human society. Unfortunately, some of them really want to preserve the unfairness for their convenience. Others think that any ambiguousness, any imperfection, and any unfairness in the court of justice have to be corrected in any case. For them, a computer judge should be ideal.

It's rather interesting that what would happen in the works of the administration of justice when a supercomputer takes the position of the judge in the future. It seems that a human judge should still be necessary to examine the decisions of a computer judge, with the assistance of some computer specialists. Any jury won't be necessary. The administrative works of the advocates and the prosecutors will be pretty much unchanged. Without the jury system, their work will be simplified to some degree.

However, a computer should be unsuitable for political decision-making in governance. A computer is also unsuitable for the lawmaking in the legislation. In order to realize a supercomputer judge, the lawmaking in the legislation has to be carried out so precisely that a supercomputer judge can fully understand all the ins and outs of the law.

Today's maximum temperature is 100 degrees F (37.8 degrees C).

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Got up at nine-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. Went out shopping at a grocery store this evening.

Today's maximum temperature is 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

Monday, September 12, 2011

Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Today's maximum temperature is 105 degrees F (40.6 degrees C).

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

Although automation of a mass production factory and an ordinary office where many people daily engage in business and of a process that many people routinely use are certainly worthwhile, the extreme advancement of full automation has caused some social problems, as well known. In the same way, the extreme advancement of outsourcing has caused similar problems, as seen recently. Taking an overdose of a good medicine can be poisonous.

Naturally, full automation isn't so beneficial when it's conducted in a place where only a small number of people work and for a system that people use infrequently because the costs and the efforts to establish it can't be recovered. For non-routine work that a limited number of people engage in, more flexibility is usually desirable. There, partial automation should be appropriate in most cases. The attempt to adopt full automation for anything and everything without having sufficient prudence tends to make people ignorant in a creative workplace.

Today's maximum temperature is 105 degrees F (40.6 degrees C).

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

Today's maximum temperature is 103 degrees F (39.4 degrees C).

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Today's maximum temperature is 93 degrees F (33.9 degrees C).

Friday, September 16, 2011

Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and pieces of Central Market's pizza for dinner.

A great medical doctor is capable of finding the cause of a patient's disease without relying on a number of medical checkups and getting rid of it promptly. In another way, a thorough physical examination should be one of the best methods that help an ordinary doctor and his or her patients, though it's known to be rather costly.

Today's maximum temperature is 91 degrees F (32.8 degrees C).

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Got up at seven-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

The environmental risks that are attendant upon extracting natural gas and oil from the shale that contains a considerable amount of kerogen are unexplored fields to me. According to some news sources, the refinement method that extracts natural gas and oil from underground shale without mining at a lower cost may cause environmental and health problems. Desirably, the possible pollution of groundwater with the future extraction of natural gas and oil from underground shale will be minimized or avoided.

Today's maximum temperature is 93 degrees F (33.9 degrees C).

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. Went out shopping at a grocery store this evening.

The following figures explain the concept of a plasma rocket named the Escargot. The basic concept of a plasma rocket was invented decades ago and may have been patented at that time. Indeed, its details are unknown to me. My newly proposed design for a plasma rocket has two spiriferous accelerators in both the upper front part and the bottom front part of its body. An open space extended over the front and middle parts of its body is used as a tank that stores an enormous amount of propellant in a liquid state. The same liquid can be used as the coolant for the superconducting magnets. A large amount of plasma can be generated in the device that is powered by a nuclear reactor and located at the cores of the two spiriferous accelerators that are also powered by a nuclear reactor. The fluxes of highly accelerated ions are intensely jetted out from two exhaust nozzles at the rear of the Escargot's body in order to gain momentum, as indicated with red dashed arrows and blue dashed arrows in the figures. The Escargot is equipped with four attitude-control thrusters with variable nozzles that shoot out the small fluxes of accelerated ions in order for attitude control and soft braking, as indicated with green dashed arrows. A hard brake can be applied in a vacuum by making a 180-degree rotation followed by the jets of the main thruster. An attitude control like a gyroscope located about the center of its body is designed to suppress the undesirable rotations of its body on the axes, especially for the axis parallel to the direction of travel. The Escargot isn't intended for the uses inside the Earth's atmosphere because it utilizes the nuclear reactor for the electricity generation inside. The Escargot is aiming for the interplanetary travel within our solar system. It's more desirable that its thrust is strong enough to escape from the gravitational fields of the moon, Mars, and other planets. The wings that may be useful when entering the atmosphere are optional.

For a larger spacecraft intended for transportation purposes, the structure of the Multiple-Spiral Escargot that is equipped with four superconducting accelerators, six superconducting accelerators, or more as its propulsion system may be appropriate. The optimization of the ratio between the powers of the accelerators should give a good attitude control of its large body on the axis parallel to the direction of travel. However, the Multiple-Spiral Escargot isn't suitable for a cargo ship that can transport space debris between the Earth's orbits because of a nuclear reactor inside.

The necessity for this sort of spacecraft may increase when a space station that can be used as a transfer station is built on the moon in the future. In this stage, its travels should be limited only between the moon and Mars, the moon and other planets, and the moon and other satellites in our solar system. Either a chemical-propellant rocket that has been conventionally used to go up the moon or a plasma rocket utilizing an advanced fuel cell, the propulsion of which is absolutely insufficient to go up the moon currently but might be in the future, will operate between the Earth's surface and the moon's surface. Therefore, a plasma rocket utilizing a nuclear reactor like the Escargot may be realized in the latter half of this century at the earliest. However, a plasma rocket isn't suitable for interstellar travel because it will never be capable of reaching near the velocity of light, though a charged particle might be accelerated to near the velocity of light in its propulsion system when the diameter of the spiriferous accelerator is sufficiently large.

BTW, the reason for my attempt to devise the design of a spacecraft above is to stave off senility. It's an interesting weekend hobby.

Today's maximum temperature is 95 degrees F (35 degrees C).

Monday, September 19, 2011

Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Today's maximum temperature is 95 degrees F (35 degrees C).

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Got up at seven-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

What motivated me to work on the 3D transistor 6 to 7 years ago shall be told today. To put it briefly, it was self-motivated.

Which existing device technologies of the semiconductor industry could amount to nothing for the purpose of scaling the transistor dimensions down to the 45nm, 32nm technology nodes, and beyond for the logic processor applications was the matter that invited my first consideration at that time. The transistor scaling following Moore's law hit a difficult when the thinning of the conventional gate dielectric film, that is SiO2, reached about 1.5nm in the early 2000s because of the exponential increase in the leakage current through it with thinning it. The transistor scalability of the high-k gate dielectric film was rather disappointing because of the presence of the thin native oxide between the high-k gate dielectric film and the Si channel, which was necessary to prevent the degradation of the carrier mobility at the channel. The scalability of the planar fully depleted SOI device was insufficient in this range of transistor scaling. Due to the increase in the dominance of the surface roughness scatterings, thinning the SOI film down beyond a certain thin level harms the carrier mobility and the transistor performance seriously though it improves the transistor scalability to some extent. Adding the double-gate configuration to the fully depleted SOI device may improve its scalability for a given thickness of the SOI film without harming the mobility, but its planar device wasn't generally regarded as manufacturable with the conventional processing. Finally, the process of elimination found the answer to the question, of which device technologies may be successful. The device technology that remained to the last was the 3D transistor such as the FinFET and the Trigate. If the 3D transistor hadn't worked, any scaling technology wouldn't have been successful and the transistor scaling had had to stop advancing. The high-k gate dielectric film might be able to conduce to scaling a bit, entailing some mobility degradation.

Those days, a large majority considered that the 3D transistor might be suitable only for applications to the memory chips such as the Static RAM, the Dynamic RAM, and so on. It seems that only a limited number of people believed its applicability to logic processor applications. What device technologies could realize the 3D transistor for the logic processor applications was the matter that invited my next consideration. During this phase of consideration, my ways of imagination and logical thinking, which were explained in my diary on 9 June 2011, were fully used to identify my ideas to realize the 3D transistor for the logic processor applications and to examine them qualitatively, and the process, device, and circuit simulations were also used to verify them quantitatively. What I proposed in my technical paper under the title of “Moderately Doped Channel Multiple-FinFET for Logic Applications” and my post study found in my diary was the 3D transistor design that enables us to resolve the known problems in their properties that have to be managed for the purpose of the logic processor applications (e.g. variations due to random dopant fluctuations, parasitic capacitances, degradation due to high doping). Either the FinFET or Traigate structure was successfully adapted for the transistor design of the 45nm node logic processor applications and beyond, by introducing the multiple-fin, the dual-metal gate configuration, the moderate channel doping, and the low-k insulating dielectric material. At least, two major manufacturers have already demonstrated some affirmative experimental results of the performances of an integrated circuit utilizing the 3D transistors similar to what my technical paper above deals with.

Today's maximum temperature is 97 degrees F (36.1 degrees C).

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Western-Japanese meal for dinner.

Today's maximum temperature is 97 degrees F (36.1 degrees C).

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Today's maximum temperature is 96 degrees F (35.6 degrees C).

Friday, September 23, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and pieces of Central Market's pizza for dinner.

It seems that some people want to say that being neutral is more agreeable than being middle.

Today's maximum temperature is 92 degrees F (33.3 degrees C).

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. Went out shopping at grocery stores this evening.

Today's maximum temperature is 99 degrees F (37.2 degrees C).

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Got up at nine-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.

Today's maximum temperature is 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

Monday, September 26, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese one-pot meal for dinner.

Today's maximum temperature is 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.

Today's maximum temperature is 100 degrees F (37.8 degrees C). This evening, slight rain accompanied by thunder came down after a long spell of severe drought. Indeed, it hasn't rained since early July this year until today.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

Today's maximum temperature is 103 degrees F (39.4 degrees C).

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.

Today's maximum temperature is 101 degrees F (38.3 degrees C).

Friday, September 30, 2011

Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and pieces of Central Market's pizza for dinner. Went out shopping at a grocery store this evening. A medium-sized car driven by an Asian man wearing a pair of black-rimmed eyeglasses in middle age followed our vehicle on the way to a neighborhood USPS office. My wife told me later on that he acted very suspiciously at its parking lot. By way of caution, let me add a comment that our vehicle kept to the speed limit.

Today's maximum temperature is 91 degrees F (32.8 degrees C).